• silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      The US mandated a switch-over for new equipment, pursuant to the Kigali amendment. Problem is that there’s a ton of older refrigerants currently in use, and if we don’t actively dispose of the equipment containing them, they’ll leak into the atmosphere as the equipment ages and breaks.

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        Yep, CO2, Ammonia and HFOs are probably our best bets at the minute to reduce global warming and keeping refrigeration systems.

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      We solved the ozone layer issues from refrigerant by moving from CFCs to HCFCs then HFCs. That didn’t reduce the greenhouse effect though.